Word: vastness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...record show that contemporary art has coercive spectacles of its own. One of them is Cai's Inopportune: Stage One--a car-bombing presented as a Chinese-scroll sequence of tumbling white automobiles, blinking light rods bursting from them like fireworks--suspended down the length of the Guggenheim's vast rotunda. Cai sees it as a "contradictory presentation--very strong physical violence presented in terms of physical beauty." And there's no denying that the piece brings its share of wow factor to the rotunda. But it's also an instance of an artist playing air guitar with history--making...
...used outside extreme examples like the space program, but new companies like the California-based Thermo Life can produce energy from relatively small temperature differentials. Right now it's used mostly to power rechargeable batteries in wireless devices, but as the technology improves, it could begin to harness the vast amount of energy lost as heat in the fossil-fuel plants that provide most of our electricity. "Sixty percent of the world's energy is wasted as heat," says Rama Venkatasubramanian, a thermoelectric expert at the research firm RTI International in North Carolina. "If we could tap into just...
...After years of battling the scandal machine that Hillary Clinton once called the "vast right-wing conspiracy," she and her inner circle feel well prepared for this sort of fight. Students of the Clintons' long career have noted that they do better in a scrape. Combat brings them to the balls of their feet; by contrast, they tend to spring leaks on calm seas. Clinton's successful attacks broke Obama's 12-win streak that had buoyed him through a month of victories, and her advisers now feel they have put a stick in the spokes of his momentum. "They...
...Pakistan, President Musharraf seems to be hanging on despite the fact that the vast majority of Pakistanis don't want him to be there. He has been an ally of ours. Should the U.S. be nudging him out of power the way we did with President Marcos in the Philippines? Is that something you would do as President? Well, I think that the problem with the Bush Administration now is that they only have one policy and that is to continue to support Musharraf. You ought to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. We should...
...negotiated any treaties? When she traveled to these 80 countries, was she involved in policymaking? If so, what? My suspicion is that you're not going to get a bunch of particularly impressive answers." Meanwhile, Camp Obama is pressing for Clinton to release her tax returns, make public her vast, unseen records from her days as First Lady and peel back the secrecy surrounding who has given what to the Clinton Library. And Obama's campaign leveled its own charges at reporters for buying into the Clinton line that media coverage of Obama has been soft. "He has to find...